Of Course Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Fluent Mandarin

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Jason Abbruzzese
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Of Course Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Fluent Mandarin
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers a speech during a workshop for application developers in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Oct. 13, 2014. Credit: Achmad Ibrahim

How's your week going? Been pretty good? Feeling like you're doing well at work and things are looking up?

Well, Mark Zuckerberg is back again to make you feel inadequate.

[seealso slug=http://sale-online.click/2014/05/14/mark-zuckerberg-vs-30-year-old/%5D%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3EThe Facebook CEO participated in a 30-minute question and answer session at Tsinghua University in Beijing on Wednesday, which he posted to his public page. He did the whole thing in Mandarin. He even cracked some jokes.

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Post by Mark Zuckerberg.

Evidently, Zuckerberg started studying Mandarin in 2010, saying it was his "personal challenge."

"I have always been interested in Chinese culture and learning a language is a great way to learn about a culture," Zuckerberg wrote.

He also noted that some of the family of his wife, Priscilla, only speak Mandarin and he hoped to converse with them.

Zuckerberg is known for setting one big goal per year, including wearing a tie to work every day (2009), only eating animals that he has killed (2011) and meeting a new person outside of Facebook every day (2013).

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